Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 1: Crime Branch Jammu today charge-sheeted accused persons, who were involved in criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating to misappropriate commercial shops at Janipur Jammu.
Charge-sheet was produced against Sardar Harjeet Singh Baghi, son of Kirath Singh of Krishna Vihar Housing Colony Janipur Jammu, Surjeet Singh, son of Kashmira Singh of Janipur Colony Jammu and Gopal Dass Sharma of Janipur Jammu (now expired), in case FIR No. 09/2019 U/S 420,467,468,471,506, 120-B RPC P/S Crime Branch, Jammu for their involvement in conspiring to usurp the commercial shops of the complainant.
The accused hatched criminal conspiracy for cheating after forging documents besides resorting to criminal intimidation to defraud the complainant of property of quite high commercial value.
A written complaint was lodged by Anjana Gupta, wife of late Kulbhushan Gupta, resident of lane number 3, Mohalla Radha Krishan Mandir, Housing Colony Janipur Jammu, in Crime Branch Jammu, wherein she had alleged that accused -Sardar Harjeet Singh Baghi had taken her shops situated at Plot No.92 lane No.03 Mohalla Radha Krishan Mandir, Housing Colony, Janipur Jammu on rent and the rent deed was executed between the accused and the husband of the complainant namely Kulbhushan Gupta on July 01,1998 for running the business of drugs and medicine under the name and style of M/s Bhagi Medical Agency. But the accused later started running different business under name and style of Muskan Medical Agency and M/s Bhagi Property Dealer in the two shops of the complainant without any permission from the complainant. When a legal notice was served upon him to vacate her shops, the accused claimed that he had already purchased both the shops from her husband way back in 2008 without showing any document in this regard.
After preliminary verification, a formal criminal case was registered against all the accused. During the course of investigation, both documentary and oral evidence were collected which established that accused Harjeet Singh taking the advantage of the death of Kulbhushan Gupta in order to grab the shops of the complainant, hatched a criminal conspiracy with Gopal Dass Sharma (now expired) and Surjeet Singh and got prepared a fake and forged document for the purpose of grabbing the shops of the complainant.
The charge-sheet has been produced in the Court of Sub-Judge, Jammu for judicial determination.